Some of the countries that had remarkably high data transfer rates were reporting a drop in network speeds as a result of smart phones gaining popularity over the past year or so. Following that train of links, one ends up article after article about which nation ranks first in network speeds, and where US lies on that list and so on. There was one website which gave a really comprehensive set of results and analysis, right till the ISP level for pretty much every nation on the planet.
Speedtest - Analyze network speeds and compare results
Seems like the site is pretty up to date too.